Russia’s Gospel Writer

Dostoevsky & the Affirmation of Life by Predrag CicovackiDostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction by Rowan Williams

reviewed by Ralph C. Wood

The literary critic Harold Bloom once defined a classic as a book that requires
us permanently to rearrange the furniture of our lives. He meant, I suspect,
that such a text prevents us from viewing the world through conventional lenses;
it requires us not only to see the world with cleansed vision but also to reorder
our lives accordingly. T. S. Eliot defined literary greatness in similar terms. “The
majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the
majority of human passions: Dante’s . . .

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